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Big changes in my video set up as I come to grips with OBS and the chroma key mechanism. Production is still taking longer than expected but shorter than other episodes. The next major focus will be on audio quality using features in OBS. There continues to be much to Learn, Master and Apply. I am in my element.

Referenced Links: https://mosquitto.org/download/ – client libraries. Executables for windows. Packages for RPI.

Mosquitto Test Broker at test.mosquitto.org

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mqttlens/hemojaaeigabkbcookmlgmdigohjobjmhttp://test.mosquitto.org/

Tasmota Topic Nomenclature

Telemetry Topics: tele/device/type e.g. tele/tasmota_C69654/SENSOR

Status Topics: stat/device/type e.g. stat/tasmota_C69654/RESULT

Command Topics: cmd/device/type e.g. cmnd/tasmota_C69654/LEDPOWER3

Example Message for Sensors

Topic: tele/tasmota_C69654/SENSOR { “Time”: “2020-12-26T19:16:58”, “Switch1”: “OFF”, “ANALOG”: { “Illuminance”: 1761 }, “DS18B20”: { “Id”: “3C01B556866B”, “Temperature”: 21.8 }, “TempUnit”: “C” }

Set Telemtry period to something different than the 5 minute default

teleperiod 30

Resulting status updates from pressing momentary push button.

1: stat/tasmota_C69654/RESULT {“Switch1”: {“Action”:”ON”} }

2: stat/tasmota_C69654/RESULT {“LedPower3″:”ON”}

3: stat/tasmota_C69654/RESULT {“Switch1”: {“Action”:”OFF”} }

4: stat/tasmota_C69654/RESULT {“LedPower3″:”OFF”}

Actuation command examples sent from the MQTTlens client

1: cmnd/tasmota_C69654/LEDPOWER3 ON

2: cmnd/tasmota_C69654/BUZZER 5,1

3: cmnd/tasmota_C69654/DIMMER 50

Tasmota console command line examples to publish an MQTT message

1: publish cmnd/tasmota_C69654/LEDPOWER3 OFF

2: publish cmnd/tasmota_C69654/BUZZER 5,1

3: publish cmnd/tasmota_C69654/DIMMER 75

4: publish cmnd/MarkTroyer.Tech/message “This message was published from the Learning Tasmota PCB”.

Bonus Rule!

rule2 on Switch1#Action=ON do publish cmnd/marktroyer.tech/message “Thanks for watching the bonus section in episode 4” endon

rule2 on